Expedia Fails Horribly In Rebranding Attempt
Launched in ’95, Expedia arrived on the online travel booking scene to give some competition to rival Travelocity (1995) and eventually put all independent travel agents out of work.
Photoshopped Ads Banned In England
When the model “Twiggy” appeared in a series of Olay ads looking much younger than her 59 years and claiming that the product she was advertising, “Definitely Eye Cream”, was responsible for the changes, people started crying foul.
Sculpting with dust. Yes, that’s right, dust.
Paul Hazelton is an artist. But unlike most artists, he works with a very uncommon medium. Dust.
You could get sued for using the Google logo on your site!
You may have seen offers like these using Google’s name or logo that sounded too good to be true.
Get Thee Behind Me: The Client From Hell
We’ve all had them. Those clients who are so crazy unreasonable that you are tempted to give up freelancing completely and go drop an application off at Burger King.
5 Totally Wearable Pieces Of Art
Blackbirds, Japanese Ghost Monks, Giant Trees. Here are some of the coolest shirts you’ll ever see.
15 Deeply Disturbing Photoshop Manipulations
There are many incredible things you can do with Photoshop, such as editing your weird neighbor out of the background of the only picture from the family reunion that everyone was smiling in.
5 resources for designing a UNIQUE logo
Whether you are just a casual designer, who likes to spend some of your spare time doodling on a PC, or are an avid enthusiast who only leaves the PC for ‘snacks’ and ‘toilet needs’, these people/places are a pretty cool way to go for those mental block moments which we ALL acquire occasionally.
Content theft and how to deal with it
The next day I received a panicky call from a guy that sounded like he was still in his teens, he was extremely apologetic, terrified that I was going to sue him, and adamant that the pirated images were his website designers fault and he had no idea that they were not original.
3 brands created around Thanksgiving
Most companies at least acknowledge the holiday, and some companies go a step further and brand their company around it, not just for the week or the day but every day of the year, below I have listed three of the ones that I found that do just that.
Use my body
Go to eBay and type in “your logo on my body” and you’ll pull up at least one auction with some crazy nut selling the opportunity to put your logo on some visible part of his/her body (in the form of a henna tattoo) for up to a three month period.
3 places to find logo design inspiration
At times like that it can be very helpful to look for inspiration in the work of other designers.
I’ve got a stupid question for you…
Contrary to common belief the customer is not always right. Actually, sometimes they are downright stupid.
